Atl\u00e9tico de Madrid vs FC Barcelona<\/p>\n
Competition\/Round: 2025-26 UEFA Champions League, Quarter-Finals, 2nd Leg<\/p>\n
First Leg Result: Barcelona 0-2 Atl\u00e9tico Madrid<\/p>\n
Barcelona Outs & Doubts: Pau Cubars\u00ed, Raphinha, Andreas Christensen (out), Marc Bernal (doubt)<\/p>\n
Atl\u00e9tico Outs & Doubts: Jos\u00e9 Gim\u00e9nez, D\u00e1vid Hancko, Marc Pubill (out), Pablo Barrios (doubt)<\/p>\n
Barcelona Form Guide: WWWLW<\/p>\n
Atl\u00e9tico Form Guide: LLLWL<\/p>\n
Misses next match if booked: Lamine Yamal, Ferm\u00edn L\u00f3pez, Marc Casad\u00f3, Gerard Mart\u00edn (Barcelona), Matteo Ruggeri, Pablo Barrios, Thiago Almada, Marcos Llorente, Cl\u00e9ment Lenglet, Giuliano Simeone, Robin Le Normand (Atl\u00e9tico)<\/p>\n
Date\/Time: Tuesday, April 14, 2026, 9pm CET (Barcelona), 8pm BST\/WAT (UK & Nigeria), 3pm ET, 12pm PT (USA), 12.30am IST (India, Wednesday)<\/p>\n
Venue: Estadio Metropolitano, Madrid, Spain<\/p>\n
Referee: Cl\u00e9ment Turpin (FRA)<\/p>\n
VAR: J\u00e9r\u00f4me Brisard (FRA)<\/p>\n
How to watch on TV: TUDN (USA), TNT Sports 1 (UK), SONY TEN 1 (India), SuperSport (Nigeria), Movistar (Spain), others<\/a><\/p>\n How to watch online: Paramount+<\/a> (USA), HBO Max (UK), Sony LIV (India), Movistar+ (Spain), others<\/a><\/p>\n Following a huge derby win over Espanyol to take a big step towards winning La Liga, Barcelona travel to the Spanish capital for the second leg of their Champions League quarter-final tie against Atl\u00e9tico Madrid at the Estadio Metropolitano on Tuesday night.<\/p>\n Bar\u00e7a come into this one looking to overturn a two-goal deficit from the first leg, which went as badly as it possibly could for the Blaugrana but didn\u2019t knock them out completely. A two-goal deficit is definitely not the end of the world and Bar\u00e7a have 90 minutes to win by two goals, take this to extra-time and maybe penalties and find a way to escape Madrid with a spot in the semi-finals.<\/p>\n This is definitely doable on paper, but making this happen in real life is another beast entirely. Bar\u00e7a will attempt to overturn a two-goal deficit against Diego Simeone, an absolute master in defending first leg leads. El Cholo has been in this situation a million times before, and perhaps no coach is willing to go to the same depths he is just to make sure his team goes through. Whatever it takes.<\/p>\n Atl\u00e9tico will likely be very defensive and try to take advantage of Bar\u00e7a\u2019s high line to score the one or two goals they need to kill the tie off, but they could also try and catch Bar\u00e7a off guard and launch a blitz in the first 15 minutes designed to force mistakes with suffocating pressing to score early and then focus solely on defending their lead. Whatever the best gameplan is, Simeone will have it, and his players will follow it blindly.<\/p>\n The Colchoneros will also have the crowd on their side, and the Metropolitano is at its very best on European nights. Atl\u00e9tico fans will be extra hostile, will put a ton of pressure on the referee, and Simeone will gesture to the crowd dozens of times asking for more support. It will be a true pressure cooker, and it will stretch Bar\u00e7a\u2019s mental toughness to its limit.<\/p>\n Bar\u00e7a have to go into a cauldron needing to win by at least two goals in regulation, they have to do it without their spiritual leader and Champions League big game expert in Raphinha, and the state of the pitch is a cause for huge concern. Simply put, the odds are terrible. Every rational person looking at this game will favor Atl\u00e9tico for a variety of real reasons, and Bar\u00e7a fans are going into this fully prepared for heartbreak.<\/p>\n So it\u2019s up to Hansi Flick and the players on the pitch to show up, answer every question, discover their best version, and find a way. This comeback isn\u2019t mission impossible, but it\u2019s almost that. It\u2019ll take a monumental effort, both physically and mentally, and the best players must play their best stuff when it matters most. There won\u2019t be a league game this weekend, so there will be more than enough time to rest after this one. There is zero excuse for not giving it your all.<\/p>\n Bar\u00e7a haven\u2019t had a truly special night in a Champions League knockout match in a long, long time, but they can make this one very, very special.<\/p>\n Barcelona (4-2-3-1): Joan; Kounde, Eric, Mart\u00edn, Cancelo; De Jong, Pedri; Yamal, Olmo, Rashford; Lewandowski<\/p>\n Atl\u00e9tico (4-4-2): Musso; Molina, Le Normand, Lenglet, Ruggeri; Simeone, Llorente, Koke, Lookman; Griezmann, Alvarez<\/p>\n Diego Simeone is a master of defending a first leg lead, Bar\u00e7a don\u2019t have Raphinha and the Metropolitano will be incredibly hostile. Everything says this won\u2019t happen for the Blaugrana, but you know what? I still believe in Hansi Flick and this team\u2019s fighting spirit: Bar\u00e7a on penalties. I have no idea how we\u2019ll get there, but get ready for some crazy business.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Atl\u00e9tico de Madrid vs FC Barcelona Competition\/Round: 2025-26 UEFA Champions League, Quarter-Finals, 2nd Leg First Leg Result: Barcelona…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":583310,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[69],"tags":[251783,4218,403,99],"class_list":["post-583309","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-soccer","tag-barcelona-match-previews","tag-barcelona-uefa-champions-league","tag-soccer","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/583309","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=583309"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/583309\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/583310"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=583309"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=583309"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=583309"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}